During the past fifteen years there has been a steady migration from the
rural portions of the United States to the western provinces of Canada,
not less than 650,000 immigrants having crossed the border within that
period. Most of them have become naturalized Canadians. It has been
estimated that these immigrants took with them, on an average, $1,000.
According to the congressional reapportionment act following the twelfth
census, there were to be 386 members in the House of Representatives or
one representative to 194,182 of the population. The House of
Representatives actually contained 391 members after the admission of
Oklahoma. By the census of 1910, several States were entitled to